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Australian war propaganda keeps getting crazier
60 Minutes Australia has churned out yet another fearmongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting.
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The belly of the beast
We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown–and start building the ecomegacities of the future.
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Bloomberg CIA Apologia accidentally vindicates China’s strict domestic policies
Beijing’s anti-corruption crackdowns, widespread surveillance and strict control over Chinese society is making it harder for the CIA to undermine that nation, and now the CIA is expressing its frustration through the billionaire media.
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Are we really Luddites just for logging off? We can be wiser about boundaries for technology
We can be wiser about boundaries for technology.
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451 Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians since early 2020, says new B’Tselem report
The Israeli human rights group said that these settler attacks are used as a “major informal tool” by the state of Israel to displace Palestinians in order to confiscate and annex their lands.
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Fake ‘shoplifting surge’ is just the latest in crime wave propaganda
The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country’s hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.
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Díaz-Canel joins Red Bandana sit-in
Yesterday, November 14, around noon, President Miguel Díaz-Canel arrived at Havana’s Central Park to join the sit-in organized by the Red Bandana collective, an initiative of social network activists, members of Cuban civil society organizations, and promoters of community projects.
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Opening this article voids warranty
Repair, as an act of reclaiming technology, is ongoing in the Global North and South with complementary driving forces and problems.
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Canadian imperialism and the responsibility to ‘Voluntour’
The term ‘voluntourism’ is a portmanteau of the words ‘volunteer’ and ‘tourism’ and refers to a practice in which people, often young upper or middle-class white women in the Global North (Bandyopadhyay and Patil 2017, 645), pay an organization to coordinate their trip to a country in the Global South.
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Thirteen theses of Marxism-Feminism
The theses are a working tool and an insurance at the same time of what we are and where we want to go to, while both the path and the goal are open for joint discussion and thus for change.
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Invisible Scars
For women inside prison, the fight for survival is less physical than psychological.
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Not just a love story?
Sekhar Kammula’s new film deftly highlights the contradictions of living in neo-liberal India.
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Sandinistas win by a landslide! U.S. dirty tricks fail in derailing Nicaraguan democracy
On Monday, the results of the election were announced: the FSLN won by a landslide with 75.92% of the vote. Voter turnout was 65.23% of all eligible voters, higher than in the last U.S. election where voter turnout is measured by registered, not eligible voters.
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‘The Return of the Dialectics of Nature’: 2020 Deutscher Prize Lecture by John Bellamy Foster
John Bellamy Foster – Deutscher Memorial Lecture
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Politico’s Staff must toe new owner’s line—including endorsing Israel
It’s been a rough time for German media giant Axel Springer. The company ousted the top editor at Bild, one of its most influential right-wing newspapers, over sexual harassment charges (New York Times, 10/18/21).
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The Facebook team that tried to swing Nicaragua’s election is full of U.S. spies
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state.
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SFSU President sides with tech giants on silencing of Palestinian voices
President Mahoney’s decision upholds the University’s acceptance of Big Tech’s increasing control over academic discussion, and its complicity with Zionist organizations.
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Brazil mourns Marília Mendonça
In the macho, back-country world of Sertanejo music, Mendonça demanded respect for women.
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Sandinistas poised to win election in Nicaragua despite U.S. sabotage and smears
Media repeats big lie that Nicaraguan migrants to the U.S. are escaping Ortega’s repression.
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‘Scandalize My Name: Stories From the Blacklist’
Documentary about the impact of the McCarthy era on African Americans in the film industry.